ARE YOU UNDERSTAFFED?

Eric Bowles knows from understaffed. No, no. As vicepresident and director of research for Atlanta-based CoreNetGlobal, Bowles recently completed the organization's most recentstudy, "Corporate Real Estate Trends in Organizational Structure,"a look at the staffing and structural changes that have taken placein corporate real estate departments of late. And he's notsurprised at the results of last week's Quick Poll, which revealedthat 74% of our corporate real estate respondents are understaffed.Only 26% said that their people "were tripping over" each other.Here's what Bowles thinks of the trend:

"The results don't surprise me, for two reasons. Real estate,like so many other departments, is being asked to do more withless, and doing more with less means everyone is runningshort-staffed. There are things you've done in the past that youwould like to do or are important to do that you're simply notgoing to get to.

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John Salustri

John Salustri has covered the commercial real estate industry for nearly 25 years. He was the founding editor of GlobeSt.com, and is a four-time recipient of the Excellence in Journalism award from the National Association of Real Estate Editors.